Nearly 7,000 people, including health care workers and community members, signed a petition calling on PeaceHealth to keep its contract with local doctors at Eugene Emergency Physicians.
Nurses delivered the petition to executives Wednesday, April 22, in the latest display of widespread criticism over PeaceHealth’s decision to hire Georgia-based ApolloMD to manage and staff its emergency departments in Springfield, Cottage Grove and Florence.
Since Jim McGovern, chief hospital executive for PeaceHealth’s Oregon network, announced the switch in February, public outcry has been loud and clear — through on-the-ground advocacy, social media and letters to Lookout Eugene-Springfield: People do not want the 41 clinicians with Eugene Emergency Physicians, or EEP, to go…